The new demand area: nurse practitioners receive numerous job offers.

Abstract

Demand for nurse practitioners continues to increase. Hospitals, long-term care facilities, out-patient areas, and ambulatory settings cannot find enough qualified applicants for their positions. Schools cannot take all the qualified applicants into their programs because of shortages of faculty or student practice sites. Meanwhile, many nurse practitioners report six or more job offers upon graduation. This author describes this new trend and strategies you can take now to prevent recruitment problems in the future.